The *Wet n Wild* Spoiled line of polishes can be found at CVS or similar stores and they’re really inexpensive — generally $2 each or 4 for $7 ! — which goes to show that it’s not necessary to spend a lot of money on a polish collection.

h2. Pictures

h3. Progress

_I took the following “progress” photos with my iPhone and quickly corrected them in Aperture, so the quality isn’t as good as the later ones I took with my DSLR._

h4. Two coats of silver

I started with two coats of silver for the base of the design. I did this because these particular polish colors are thin so they show what’s under them. I used silver to give the colors a little “punch” since it acts like a mirror reflecting light back. The next photo shows what I’m talking about.

Here is a sample of the blue which shows the thinness of the colors. From top to bottom I painted a band of white, silver, and black. Then added a single coat of the blue color. You can see that the visual effect is different for each. For example, though not well captured in the image, the reflection from the black band is teal in color.

Here the silver looks darker than the white, but it’s just because it reflects light differently than the white. The silver works quite well.

Here we have my first coat of colors, _pre-cleanup_. You can see they are just applied haphazardly on each nail. I didn’t overlap the colors because I didn’t want to mix on the brush, but you could overlap if you waited for them to dry.

Here’s a closeup of the second coat of color, _post-cleanup_. When putting a color over silver, I usually give a little extra margin between my skin and the silver because the formulas are generally harder to remove ; this can come into play when doing final cleanup.

I also applied a coat of Seche Vite over the colors. This step is optional, but I did it to protect the design created up to this point and to make cleanup easier after doing the black crackle.